Fate, Hope & Charity

$16.95

Individual heartbreaking stories of five children who lived at the Foundling Hospital in the second half of the 18th century are told within this book. In the book Threads of Feeling reader's were introduced to textiles used to identify foundlings. But each of these textiles represents an infant who was left there. These stories are followed by four creative responses which are almost as captivating. Intermixed are pictures of documents and tokens pertaining to the stories.